Theodor AdornoThinkers

Agonism is the idea of opponents who want to annihilate one another. . . To enter the agon, each the mortal enemy of each.

Ambivalence is a relation toward something that one has not yet mastered.

Antisemitism is the rumor about the Jews.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: They're only animals.

The Authoritarian personality is composed of nine social psychological traits that tended to cluster around authoritarianism. These include conventionalism, authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, anti-intellectualism, anti-intraception, superstition and stereotypy, power and 'toughness', destructiveness and cynicism, projectivity, and exaggerated concerns over sex.

The Authoritarian personality derives from immense anger towards the parent for harsh parenting which leads one to identify with and idolize authority figures. It also suggested a redirecting of anger toward the father on account of suppressed homosexuality.

Authoritarianism is associated with deference to authority figures, hostility towards those outside the dominant social group, such as ethnic minorities, and strong right-wing or even fascist political beliefs.

Authoritarianism is related to excessive parental discipline causing the child to displace aggression from its parents to other, weaker individuals.

Carrion-eating is the method of dictating a text to a scribe such that when one returns to it later, one does so with the eye of a stranger who can ravage it unapologetically.

Catastrophe is not some momentary event, but the state of the very 'normal' in an administered (rationalized) world.